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I finally have money in my life, so I've been using fake trading simulators to learn how to invest. It's like a really fun game there's no logic to at all. I wanted to just sink a chunk of it into penny stocks but everyone said I'm better off just going to Atlantic City for the weekend if I want to lose money. Does anyone here invest? I can't figure out if there's a pattern to it, I just put money into Gold, Oil, and Sony.

My dad has always played a little bit with stocks, but we have always invested in his company, which is a supermarket chain, as it has AMAZING stock options for the employees (being employee owned). It's always been a very sound investment and has provided a very much needed cushion for my finances in coming to France.

I've done it off and on. I've found that the trick is to shoot for modest gains as opposed to trying to go for the huge money. I've had the best luck using the system from Rule #1 by Phil Town. I made a bit of money with this system when energy drinks were first starting to get bigger. I invested in Monster (if I remember right). It was when they first branched out and started creating different flavors.

I've owned quite a lot of stock at different times over the years. Never been into the whole daytrading bit; I tend to get it and hang onto it and let it split and sell off a bit when I need liquid asset.

EDIT. I'm reminded that, legally, I can not talk about what was in the rest of this post.

We had a fake stock simulation in a high school Business Law class. We started with a $1,000 and competed to see who could make the most by the end of the semester. I ended up in second or third place with about $170,000.

That's how I learned that getting rich is easy. My advice is to invest everything you have in Apple or Google or whatever is on your homepage or desk or pocket at the time. And then forget about it for 18 weeks. It helps if you can go back in time a bit first. Or find some kind of cheat code like I'm sure the two assholes who beat me managed to make $500,000. In real life, I guess the cheat code would be having a really great lawyer.

But I'm an English major. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

We had the same thing. I didn't do as well (though I did pretty damn good), but yeah, I followed the same rule. Just pick companies you use and trust. Apparently America is less like me and more like jes. So an even better rule is pick a person that's most like the average American and invest in companies he/she loves. They had a King of the Hill episode about this. Bill was that average American. So jes is Bill... with hair... with great hair, I hear.

Drew invests some things for us but when he tries to explain it to me I'm just like hominahominahominawhat? I do know enough to understand that it's not day trading. It's long term investing, but separate from our Roth IRA & 401K and...whatever else. Mutual funds or something. I don't know.

Haven't they figured out that with all the minerals and elements and atoms in the human body, that it's worth about $17.50.
So even when everything goes in the shitter, I try to remember at least I got almost 20 bucks.

Hey I was gonna bump this thread. Anystock, I rolled over the 401k from my old job and took half out to pay off a bunch of mine and Haley's debt. The rest is savings and the company I use lets you buy stock from theirsite. First I bought Zynga stock when it was really low but then I sold it because my brother was stranded and needed some money and I made around $100 off of it. Then I did some more research and bought some EA stock. So I'll see how that goes.

That human body thing? That's something I've heard all my life. About all the trace elements, like copper and gold, that are in people. There's some old MASH episode that even mentions it.
It might be worth like 30 bucks nowadays. I dunno.

I see. Well, you're the first place I heard it. I've avoided M.A.S.H. for my entire adulthood because of how much it was the only thing on basic cable when I was a child. I hated it with a fiery passion.

Oh man, if anything give those first 3 seasons a chance. I swear Major Frank Burns is one of the greatest villains in literature/television history.
If you like it, it's worth going up to season 6, but after Radar leaves it's just "Blah! War is Terrible! Why Me!" for another 5 seasons.

That reminds me of the time I was a kid and I saw in the (old-timey paper) tv listings that Benny Hinn was going to be on for an hour one night. And I thought "Oh, it's a cheap tv listing magazine, they obeisly just misspelled Benny Hill, and it's going to be on for an hour? This is going to be a great night!"
So I turned it on and it's some goofy Hawaiian faith healer! What the hell! To this day I DESPISE! Benny Hinn just for that. Could care less about him being an asshole and ripping people off for their religon or anything.

I love M.A.S.H. and actually didn't mind watching it as a kid. That and Taxi and Cheers and basically older based audience shows. I was always up super late at night so there were hardly ever cartoons on. Now that I'm older all I watch is cartoons... mostly.

I knew that. My Dad watches Cops. He enjoys it. I can't wrap my head around that. I enjoyed a couple of episodes when I was a kid and the "trashy couple fighting and the cops show up to take one of them, or both in some cases, to jail" novelty was still new for television. What I never stopped enjoying was Mr Show's parodies of Cops.

We watch Cops all the time. My favorite is when people get tazed. It's some big dude who thinks he's bad and he's going to kick some ass and then he gets tazed and falls down screaming like a little girl. Love it.

Oh man, if anything give those first 3 seasons a chance. I swear Major Frank Burns is one of the greatest villains in literature/television history.
If you like it, it's worth going up to season 6, but after Radar leaves it's just "Blah! War is Terrible! Why Me!" for another 5 seasons.

I sold the EA stock and lost about $25 and then i made some more research and bought some stock in this company that was about to release this controlled-release hydrocodone that doesn't have acetaminophen. Now i know some people who have chronic pain and live on vicodin and stuff so i knew this would be a big deal if it works. Anyway, they announced the release date (next month) and some clinical trials that were good and i'm up $45 just today. It should go way up when it gets released and stuff. That's my strategy with stocks, just chip away at it and make $100 or $200 here and there and maybe hit a windfall in the process.

I sold the EA stock and lost about $25 and then i made some more research and bought some stock in this company that was about to release this controlled-release hydrocodone that doesn't have acetaminophen. Now i know some people who have chronic pain and live on vicodin and stuff so i knew this would be a big deal if it works. Anyway, they announced the release date (next month) and some clinical trials that were good and i'm up $45 just today. It should go way up when it gets released and stuff. That's my strategy with stocks, just chip away at it and make $100 or $200 here and there and maybe hit a windfall in the process.

I had heard about this stuff in December so I was hoping it was already out so I could switch to it.
Nuts!

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